Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some younger artists question whether an obsessive concern with the raw realities of daily life may prove to be as intellectually numbing as the . pompous official art of the past. They have turned inward to explore the realm of the subconscious and myth. Others have followed a completely different path, setting art aside to take up journalism, history and politics. The diversity, even the confusion, has been welcomed after decades of conformity. "We need time to get over our feeling of shock and process all this new information," says Okudzhava. "The masterpieces will come later. Now we must editorialize, speak...
...dodge icebergs that were floating in the sound, Cousins asked the Coast Guard station in Valdez for permission to switch from the path taken by outgoing vessels to the one used by incoming ships. The Coast Guard gave its O.K. but then lost radar contact with the ship. The local newspaper, the Valdez Vanguard, reported that the Coast Guard two years ago replaced its radar with a less powerful unit. Had it maintained contact, the Coast Guard could have warned Cousins that he was straying close to the dangerous rocks of Bligh Reef...
Cossu's new album, Switchback, however, tries to push the path of fusion into a new direction. As the title suggests, just as mountain switchbacks take the trail back and forth to reach a certain destination, so is Cossu's music quite repetitive; it is repetitive, however, in an effort to establish a new sound. Cossu achieves a certain originality in his use of cellos and congas in creative percussion sequences...
Even those players who arrive on campus hoping to get a practical education as well as play ball can find obstacles in their path. That was the case with Brian Rahilly, who as a 6-ft. 10-in. senior electrified Oklahoma's Muskogee High School with his on-court wizardry in 1983. Brian, who comes from a white, middle-class background, was sought after by dozens of colleges before choosing the University of Tulsa. He says he had two goals: to play in the N.B.A. and to become a sports broadcaster...
...basketball fans across the country fix their eyes on the NCAA tournament this week, TIME shows how the national obsession with winning and moneymaking is turning big-time college sports into an academic scandal that for too many players leads down a one-way path to broken dreams. -- A look at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, a basketball powerhouse in the heart of America's gambling capital...